FLN

The National Liberation Front (Arabic: Jabhet Al-Taḥrīr Al-Waṭanī, French: Front de Libération Nationale), better known as the FLN, is a socialist political party in the country of Algeria. Formed on 1 November 1954, the FLN was the group that fought against France in the Algerian War of 1954-1962 that gained Algeria its independence.

History
The National Liberation Front (FLN) was founded on 1 November 1954 by Ahmed Ben Bella, who united several other Algerian nationalist groups to fight for Algeria's independence from France. The FLN mainly operated in the mountains of inner Algeria while the French Army occupied the coastline, and the FLN fought against the French in a long guerrilla war. In 1957, the Battle of Algiers occurred when French paratroopers put down the FLN in Algiers and the coastal cities, with several FLN leaders being killed or captured. However, the FLN recovered and were victorious due to the turning of French public opinion against the war. The OAS French extremists failed in their Algiers putsch of 1958, and they were more committed to fighting the French government than the FLN. In 1962, France officially gave independence to the FLN, and the FLN became the ruling party of Algeria. Ben Bella was the first President of Algeria, but his autocratic rule led to his former comrades betraying him and deposing him. Houari Boumediene led the country from 1965 to 1978, and the FLN remained the ruling party until 1989, when other parties were allowed to vote. The Islamic Salvation Front's popularity in the elections led to an Algerian Army coup in 1992 that started the Algerian Civil War as Islamists rebelled against the military, who put the rebellion down ten years later. In 2015, the FLN had 208/462 seats in the People's National Assembly and served as the party of the President, Abdelaziz Bouteflika.